Podcast: Crunch Time

The special election campaign pivots towards a controversial theme as crunch time nears... state government's cash crunch appears to be getting worse... and Assembly Republicans crunch up their veteran leader and put a new person in his stead.

It's another edition of the Capital Notes Podcast. And as Capitol Weekly'sAnthony York and I report, it was a busy week in California politics.

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About John Myers

John Myers is senior editor of KQED's new multimedia California Politics & Government Desk. He has covered California politics for most of the past two decades -- serving previously as Sacramento bureau chief for KQED News and, most recently, as political editor for KXTV News10 (ABC) in Sacramento. He moderated the only gubernatorial debate of 2014, and was named one of the nation's top statehouse reporters by The Washington Post. Follow him on Twitter @johnmyers.